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in Anlover,bu was
graduated from
Yale in 1880. I'm
nlediately af ter
graduation he be-
came q teacher, and
occasionally enliv-
ened his work by
composing verses,
most of which were
marked by a spirit
of fervent pi,.ty.
His earliest hymn
is his greatest,
and was written
when he was but
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live, and SAYS:
how curious it is!
l believe perfectly
III all these people,
and feel quite an
interest in the inn
in which they
lived. Among his
drawings is one of
Mrs. Brookfield, to
whom the letters
were written, in
water color and
pencil. Speaking
Of Charles Buffers
death, he says:
"But isn't it , an
awful, awful, sud-
den S um m on S?
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lent Galfornia olive! We despise lie green
Spanish olive out here We let our olive
ripeil, turn black and blue before we
pickle them. Then we suck them, let them
melt IN the mouth. / tell you, if you never
tasted . California olive prepared in this
way, you have never yet dined
JOAQUIN MILLER.
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A TYPICAL SEA CAPTAIN.
FORTY-SEVEN YEARS AS COMMAND
Err OF A SAILING SHIP.
One of Rapidly Vanishing Class-A Sea-
mam on neutrality-suspicious. of Sailors.
Rats as Prophets of Disaster-Ameri-
cans Before the Mast.

Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, April A.
The men who now go down to the sea as
masters of sailing ships belong to rapidly
vanishing class At one time they ruled the
waters. Their ships carried the freight of all
the world and all the passengers who crossed
the oceans. Now their cargoes are reduced to
lumber and oil, and rarely does passenger
embark with them. In former days their
position was one of glory, as well as response
bility. Monarchs of their floating kingdoms,
they fed on the admiration and homage of,
and were respected by, those they command
ed, and they tasted some Of the joys of great
ness. Now they have but the society of their
officers and crews and carry only the most
uninteresting freight.
Capt Mason. of the bark Brazos, is a typi-
cal captain of the old school, rugged, efficient,
keen Of eye and strong of nerve. A chat
with him is as good as dream of sailing
round the world, although he isn't given to
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drawing the long
bow. His ativen-
lures on salt water
are com nlollplace
to him, and it does
not enter his mind
that they would be
madly interesting
to Gland turtles"
Forty-seven years
has Capt. Mason
SAILED the seas
over"-ev er since
he was IA years old.
A wonderful fresh
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New Yorker has invented a musical roy
il, the shape of a champagne bottle laterally
divided, and on the inside of the section is =
vi.lin and strings, on which music can be dis
ctlursed
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elevator | odown
to look at it. 1t
contains sS2,GO0.-
900 in gold and sill
yer, and is packed
to the uGnlost. 1t
is directly under
the cash room and
is of the same area.
There is a pair of
scales at the en-
trance upon wli'll
all the gold and
silver. is weighed
before it is put into
the vault. The
scales have ben
in use about eight
aau months and
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small are tue rest; but dare say I am get
ting out of my depth"
And again he speaks of going past the
Hotel de Ia Terrasse, where "BeckvS used 70
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.

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Special Notices are so per cent. more than reg
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Local advertising is cents for the first insertion
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DR.. RAY PALMER.

The Author of "My Faith Looks Up to
Thee," and His Hymns.
Among the distinguished dead of the mast
month none was more widely known by his
work than DR.. Ray Palmer, author of that
thrilling hymn:
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The great bullion vault, however, is down
below this in the basement Entering all
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My faith looks up to thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary.

This familiar hymn has been translated int
dozen languages and sung by unconntad
millions who never even heard the authors
name. DR.. Palmer died on the goth of March
last at his residence in Newark, N. j., at the
age of 10. He was born at Little Compton,
R. l., Nov. Z, 1SOS and was ciassmate of
Oliver Wendell Holmes at Phillips academy,
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Australia has not proven the wonderful
Eldorado Tor sprinters that it was supposed
to be, and several of them, | see, are already
thinking of'shaking the dust of the ''[sland
continent" from their feet. OCTY COHEN
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The Scotch cutter Thistle, now being built
in England, will be 919 feat longer and 5h
feet wider than the Galatea She is expected
to do wonders. as her model is said to be
something entirely new and greatly con-
ducive to speed
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-15

TELESCOPE AT WASHINGTON.
with a layer of water and the polishing rouge,
and the glass is again laid upon it, and kept
in motion in the same way as in the fine
grinding. Thus each surface of the two
glasses is speedily brought to high polish.
Then the glass is tested to find the defects
1t is set up on edge, facing a luminous point
at a distance equal to ten or fifteen times the
focal length. The image of the point formed
in the focus of the glass is then examined
with an eye piece of high power. The glass
is then taken back to the tool and the polish
ing process is recommended, only pressing
upon those parts of the glass where it has to
be ground away. 1t is tried again, and again
goes to the polisher.
So far no extraordinary skill on the part of
the rkman is required; but as the size of
the glass is increased the process becomes
more difficult and tedious, and the difficulties
Of judging what the defects are increase enor-
mously.
The telescope is by no means finished with
the glass. 1t must be tubed properly. 1t
must admit of being moved by clock work in
such way that as the earth revolves from
west to east the telescope shall revolve from
east to west with exactly the same velocity,
and thus point steadily at the same STAR The
details of the machinery for attaining these
and other results have required large
amount of thought and care.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-15

In 1S43 Mr. Ruskin published his Modern
Painters" which was defense of landsca pc
art, especially of the paintings Of Turner 1t
was completed in five volumes in 1860.
Meantime he travelled extensively and also
produced THE Seven lamps of Architec-
ture" and "The Stones of Venice" He as
serted the superiority of modern art over
ancient art, and was among the first support
ers of the pre-Raphaelite school in one branch
at least. In 1867 lie was. named Rede pro-
fessor at Cambridge, in 1869 professor of the
fine arts at Oxford and later Slade professor.
Mr.. Ruskin's home, Brentwood, is built
romantically, but unhealthfully, at the base
of hill near the edge of Coniston lake, one
Of the loveliest spots in the English lake dis
trict. When he purchased it the house was
mere crumbling shed; but he has made it
dwelling fit for a philosopher, if not king.
Curiously enough superstition prevails
among his ignorant neighbors that the curse
of insanity is sure to fall upon the proprietors
of Brentwood. An artist named Lynton,
who formerly owned it, lost his mind and
died there. This, Of course, gave rise to the
superstition. Within the house is an mex
haustible museum of artistic treasures. Pic
lures there are in abundance, enough to crys-
many Turner's, since Ruskin was Turner
worshiper. Art and science are equally
represented in the various articles lying
about-here a manuscript, there a picture;
here section of a stone, there the anatomy
Of plant. The furniture of the house is
strong and substantial-not in the least
aesthetic. Much of it belonged to Mr. Rus
kin's father.
OF Ruskins Inherited wealth nothing re-
mains-nothng but the pictures 1t has
melted away under the fervor of his passion
for everything that is rare, beautiful and
costly. And he has always had certain ideas
Of comfort which it took money to crafty.
For long time past he could not be induced
to travel by rail OF steamboat if it could be
avoided, but went about i'll his private car
riage. Then. too, he was generous to a ruin
Gus degree. For years he had a list of pen
soners who would cause the. purse of a
Vanderbilt to collapse. They were mostly
writers who failed to get coin for their work,
and artists who had made the fight and
broken down before it was ended. His books
bring him in from e., 900 to 93, 900 year,
and upon this he is now living. Even that
gets sadly straitened sometimes, and occa-
sionally picture disappears and is sold in
London by dealer who has been Rusllin's
lifelong friend, and always for far higher
price than Mr. Ruskin paid for it. The fact
that it is from his collection enhances its
calue
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arrival on the gold GOVERNOR BARTLETT.
en- coast he abandoned journalism for
politics and was that same year
elected county clerk He has ever since
been in public life, having held office con-
tinuously. In 1882 he was chosen mayor of
San Francisco, and, as in Clevelands case,
the mayoralty proved q stepping stone to the
office of chief ma, .istrate of his state. Gov
ernor Bartlett was elected on tie Democratic
ticket, but his successor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor Waterman, was chosen on the Repub-
lican ticket, and was the only one of that
party who was successful at the polls Gov
ernor Bartlett's disorder is Bright's disease,
aggravated by paralysis, and its disastrous
turn was due to overwork during the recent
session of the legislature.
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and they worked together nearly forty years.
Grinding lenses is a work which requires
the utmost nicely. Often, after months of
careful labor, flaw is found and all the
work must be lost. Once when Mr.. Clark
was giving the final polishing to a lens upon
which years time had been expended, it
fell to the floor and was broken. Looking
woefully at the fragments few moments
in silence he stood up, saying: "Boys, we
will make better one." The unlimited pa
tience which enabled him to be cheerful un-
der such a disaster was his chief character
istic. And lie was ever cheerful and COM
panionable.
Mr.. Clark was the first optician i'll the
United States to make achromatic lenses,
each completed lens being composed of two
pieces, one of crown and the other of flint
glass, and he invented numerous improve
ments in telescopes and their manu-
facture, including the double eye piece,
an ingenious method of measuring
small celestial arcs. He made the 1s3s inches
glass now in the Chicago observatory, the
one of "a inches aperture for the Washington
observatory, and 80 inch refractor for the
Imperial observatory of st. Petersburg, for
which the honorary medal of Russia was
aWaruUu-tne only one ever conferred upon
an American The last and greatest work of
Mr. Clark and his sons was the construction
of sc inch refractor for the Lick observa-
tory on Mt. Hamilton, in California. This
will be finished in few months, and will
be the largest in the world. Mr.. Clark was
also an astronomer of note, and made some
valuable discoveries, for'which the Lalande
gold medal was awarded him by the French
academy. The cheapest telescope Mr. Clark
ever made cost $500, while the National he
sold for SAG, 900, and the Lick glass will cost
$4,000 without the mounting. The objec-
tives alone to these instruments are worth
So, 900 each, and are capable of a magnify
ing power of 1000 diameters, and of increas-
ing the surface of the object viewed to
2,5O0,0O0 times its natural size. 1t takes a
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AT yICKSBURG-1SS11.


the dead-soldiers that have stacked their
One of the principal features of Vicksburg is
this vast cemetery. The rough and ragged
hills which form part of the bank of the
Father OF Waters have been fashioned into a
place of profound beauty and impressive
ness. Forty-seven acres are inclosed, in the
improvement of which the government has
expended more than S500,000. Ten men,
under charge of superintendent private
soldier from Ohio-are constantly EN-
played in keeping the grounds in order. On
the most elevated point stands the monument,
or what is left Of it, originally erected on the
spot where Grant and Pemberton arranged
for the surrender of the city after the long
and terrible siege. Relic hunters had so
defaced it by chipping off pieces that to save
it from utter destruction 1t was removed to
the cemetery and cannon substituted. Be-
low us sweeps the majestic river, but since
the siege it avoids the town and strikes the
bluff a mile or SO below the old landing. The
former bed of the river is now a lake, and
where the great gunboats lay and belched
fire and destruction into the devoted city is
now a bank of sand covered, with growth of
coarse grasses and underbrush. All around
the city are signs of combat.
Such war, such waste, such fiery tracks Of dearh.
Nature, however, is busy repairing the raw
ages Of man. With the magic use of SUM-
shine and rain she is smoothing the earth
works and filling up the rife pits.
In this Vicksburg city of silence, with
more inhabitants than in the living city,
there are 12,10 graves marked with head
stones which bear numbers only, the occu-
pants being unknown. The bones of these
unidentified sleepers were gathered from
battlefields, near and remote, brought here
by contract. A price was given for each,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-15

ference East and REV. DANIEL CURRY.
held appointments in it for eleven years. In
1S45 he became president of Asbury, now De
PAW university, at Greencastle, Ind Two
years later he came east. In 1864 he became
editor i'll chief of The Christian Advocate, a
position he held until, in 1876, i'll health
forced him out of it. He spent some time in
Europe and after his return edited The
Methodist, which was afterward merged into
The Christian Advocate. For the next six
years DR.. Curry devoted himself to theologi-
cal writing. He produced Fragments
platform Papers," new edition of ''Clark's
Commentary on the New Testament" Life
of Bishop Clarke" and other works In ad-
dition to all this he edited The National Re-
pository through eight volumes. From 1884
to his death he edited The Methodist Maga-
zine. His friends loved and admired him
and his opponents respected him.
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FAREW ELL.

Foreseen thro' all or glad, bright summer days
Has been this parting hour, when sep rate ways
We'd walk once more.
Your holiday is over, and you must
Meet sterner duties elsewhere not, trust,
More weakly than before.
Not weaker for this close communion, dear,
Soul unto soul,
But stronger for mans duties, that stern part
In liht's allotment that our heart
Has chosen for its goal.
Your pathway lies in other places,
And mid new scenes and fairer faces
You will forget,
While | walk on among the olden duties
With mute regret.
All. me, how fain my woman's heart would
think
Not valueless nor easily snapped the link
That binds now.
From the deepest undercurrent of thot
Flowing from mind to nina twas forged ana
wrought,
And yet trow,
Not glass more brittle is. Alas the heart,
Which in our friendship has had so little part
Been counted vain
Could weave from nothingness stronger tie
Than this p atomic chain.
And so farewell, my friend" my poor heart
says;
Farewell, dear. golden summer days"
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Helena, Montana, Thursday, September IS, 1887
DEATH In the deed he deprives himself of

death. In the deed he deprives himself of
the power to revoke the gift.
His attacks of alteration change lis entire
character. The present attack began in April,
and took at first an unusually violent form.
He is very fond Of children. and in sort OF
way he had adopted a number OF girls from
s to IA years of age, children of poor vii
layers, who went to Brentwood to be in
structed in music at his expense, and also to
pursue other studies. Among his ignorant
neighbors, some of whom were jealous that
their own children were not among the num-
ber, this caused unpleasant gossip, and Mrs.
Severn and her husband induced Ruskin to
forbid the children the house. This made
Ruskin very angry at Mrs. Severn. He i'm
mediately sat down and wrote letters all over
the country denouncing Mrs Severn in the
strongest terms. Fortunately he left the
sealing of the letters to his faithful valet,
Baxter, who saw that they were never posted.
Baxter never leaves him, and, it is said, is
not in the least influenced by the fact that
his master discharges him at least once a day.
Mr.. Ruskin went to live at the little coun-
try inn, and then to the cottage of a former
servant, accompanied by Baxter, of course.
He got possession of bis check book, and gave
checks right and left, till he had overdrawn
his bank account. Then his malady took an
other turn. All excitement disappeared, and,
i'll physically as well as mentally, he took to
his bed in a melancholy and almost silly con-
dition. Then he grew better, but was soon
worse again, this time becoming more violent
than before. 1t was necessary to remove the
pictures from his bedroom, lest he destroy
them by his violence. Since then he has i'm
proved somewhat, and left Brentwood a
fortnight ago, but whittier he has gone no
one at Coniston knows Everything in the
house is put away carefully, as though long
absence was contemplated. On leaving the
place the unhappy owner remarked that he
might never see it again.
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No. A.

shape. England had lost the art OF
shaping object glasses, but rough glass
of the necessary purity and uniformity
was cast there as in no other country. Mr..
Clark for some time imported his rough disks
to fill the orders he received from Mr.. Dawes,
who was telescope fancier, always on the
lookout for improvements in construction
and mounting.
Only the very largest lenses are ground by
machinery. The tools for grinding lens are
very simple-merely round plates of cast iron,
about three feet in diameter, followed out to
suit the curves of the lens. They look like
huge, shallow saucers. Three of these tools
are necessary one nearly fiat for the inner
surface of the flint glass, one convex, for
its outer surface, and one concave, for the
crown glass The surface of the tool Is
covered with coarse emery and water, the
glass is laid upon it, and the grinding Is
carried ON by sliding the glass back anu 49,
on the tool. While sli1ing, the glass is slowly
turned round, while, at the same time, the
operators continually move around III the
other direction, so that the strokes are made
successively in every direction on the tool.
By these combined motions every inequality,
either on the glass or the tool, is gradu-
ally worn away and both are reduced
to portions of nearly perfect spheres. Then
finer emery is used until the surface becomes
quite smooth. Then comes the polishing.
The whole tool is covered with a thin coating
of pitch, which is pressed, while still warm,
into the proper shape. 1t is then covered
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TESTING A LENS.

months solid labor to make a good inch
objective, and year for an OF 10 inch one.
In recognition of his great contributions to
science degrees were conferred on Mr.. Clark
by the universities Of Harvard, Amherst,
Princeton and Chicago, but he had worked
at telescopes for ten years without receiving
the slightest recognition or encouragement
from any official, scientific or educational
quarter. And yet these ten years were those
of the revival or foundation of practical
astronomy in the United States. To Mr..
Dawes, a scientific divine of Europe, is due
the credit of bringing out this telescope
maker. At the tine Mr.. Clark began q
correspondence with Mr. Dawes there was not
in all England an establishment which could
'-~- ;.,to accurate
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VIEW FROM VICKSBURG CEMETERY.
and negroes secured the country for skele-
tons 1t is claimed that old negro grave
yards We're robbed and their contents brought
to this place of beauty, and laid side by side
with the brave boys of the northland who
died in the heat and dust, in the cold and
rain, with wounds and with fever, and so far
away from home Peace and pity for the
soldier, but what of the mercenary who for
his pieces of silver practiced such wicked
imposition. OF the stones standing at the
head of each grave only :, ,S96 contain inscrip
tlons, which include name, company and
regiment, and in case of officers the rank
AT Chalmette cemetery, just below New
Orleans, there are 1881 graves, with 5,G14
unknown occupants. The hospitals con-
tributed full share to the known dead of
Chalmette. This cemetery covers fifteen and
half acres and is part of the site of the
battlefield on which Jackson repulsed Pack
enham's men and saved New Orleans during
the war of 1S12-14 which event is duly COM
memorated on the Sth of January. every
year, 10y the people of the Crescent City, The
cemetery wall crosses the line Of earthwOrks
thrown up by the Americans, and on which
the cotton bales were placed to give additional
protection from the bullets of the invaders.
The location is greatly unlike that at Vicks-
burg; here the ground is level as floor. with
the surface of the river above, the water kept
from submerging it and the surrounding
country and city only by a mere wall of
earth; there the white headstones are scat
tered over hills high above the swelling
floods; here the eye sweeps up and down long
rows, twenty-four in number, each half
mile in length, in all twelve miles of graves;
in both shell roads and walks, and flower
beds and evergreens artistically arranged.
The roses and trees are fragrant and the
heavy foliage droops as if in everlasting sor-
row; the thick leaved ambrosial live oaks,
the heavy trailing creepers of the vines, the
magnolias and myrtles, the light swaying
banners of the moss, all bending low as if in
funeral mourning. Near by the Chalmette
cemetery is the tall shaft built in 1885 by con-
gress in honor of Jackson's victory 1t shows
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THE SOUTHERN GIRL.

Her dimpled cheeks are pale;
She's a lilv of the vale,
Not rose.
In muslip or q lawn
She is fairer than the dawn
To her beaus.
Her boots are slim and neat,
She is warm about the feet.
it is said.
She amputates her RS,
But her eyes are like the stars
Overhead.
On balcony at night
With a fieecy cloud of white
Round her hair
Her grace, ah, who could paint
She would fascinate n saint,
! declare.
'Tis matter of regret.
She's a bit OF coquette
Whom | sing,
On her cruel path she goes
With a half a dozen beaus
To her string.
But let all that pass by,
As her maiden moments fly,
Dew empearled.
When she marries, on my life,
She will make the dearest wife
In the world.